Elegant Street Interventions by D. Billy

posted by Simone Davalos on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

guest post by Simone Davalos

D. Billy, an artist from Brooklyn, improves his surroundings with impermanent onomatopoeia, among other things:

Crackle (Speaker)

Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, I have begun to add visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti. After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up. For me, this process encourages a reexamination of surroundings and objects that are usually taken for granted, and injects a hint of the fantastical surreality that I have established in my other work.

Or, at the very least, I hope someone thinks these things are kind of funny.

Ring (Payphone)

The thing I personally like about this particular approach is the fact that balloons don’t last that long, neither does tape. It’s a nice illustration of what the philosopher Bueller meant when he said “Life moves pretty fast If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” [link]

via And I Am Not Lying

photos via D. Billy

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this blog post was written by Simone Davalos on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008


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